for public health." so, sanjay, this is the first we have spoken since the omicron surge really took hold weeks ago. what do you make of what's and confusion over guidance from the government. >> yeah. well, happy new year, right? here we are back, again. i mean, i think there is a couple things that have really struck me. one as you just heard in randi's report is that the -- the number of cases is -- is really -- it's pretty staggering, right? if you compare this to last year's peak around this time, we are about, you know, close -- approaching two times what we saw around this time last year. now, at the same time, we have about 75% of the hospitalizations and this gets to that point that people have been making. look. this may be less severe for various reasons, because we have some existing immunity, because of the nature of this omicron variant, itself. who knows? we are not sure, entirely. but there does seem to be this decoupling of cases. but what you have heard, again, from randi's report and many other people is that when we start talking about such a high absolute number of infections,